WSWS (2022-09-01). New Zealand media, politicians ramp up war propaganda after soldier killed in Ukraine. wsws.org Corporal Dominic Abelen, who was killed while fighting in eastern Ukraine, is being glorified as a national hero in order to build support for greater NZ involvement in the US-NATO imperialist war against Russia over Ukraine.
John McEvoy (2022-09-01). How Shell and BP Financed Britain's Cold War Propaganda Machine. globalresearch.ca
Brenda Norrell (2022-08-31). Legacies in Film 'Trespassing' Exposed U.S. Nuclear Industry Targeting Native Americans. indybay.org "Trespassing," censored in more film festivals worldwide than it has been shown, reveals how the Colorado River Indian Tribes, Mojave, Western Shoshone, Navajo and Pueblo were targeted by the nuclear industry. Censored News Legacies in Film series.
Dave DeCamp (2022-08-31). Taiwan Says It Fired at Chinese Drone for First Time. news.antiwar.com Taiwan's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that Taiwanese troops fired warning shots at a Chinese drone that was flying in airspace over Kinmen County, an archipelago of Taiwanese-controlled islands off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The Taiwanese Army's Kinmen Defense Command said that three "civilian" drones flew over the Kinmen islands, also known as Quemoy …
Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-08-31). Faced With US 'Decapitation Drill'/DPRK Korea Missile Launch Is Self-Defense. orinocotribune.com By Sara Flounders Aug 26, 2022 | The western corporate media described the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's launch of two missiles Aug. 17 as threatening, aggressive and paranoid. What most media failed to report was the prior U.S. military exercises with Japan and South Korea off Hawai'i, in preparation for extensive war exercises off Korea, that provoked the DPRK's two warning shots. | An Aug. 19 article in the Daily Beast, an online news website, headlined a longer and upcoming military land, sea and air exercise this way: "U.S. to Enrage Kim Jong Un With Assassination Dry Run." The article then r…
Timothy Alexander Guzman (2022-08-31). The Drumbeats of War and US-NATO Propaganda: "China Is Bad" and "They Are Coming to Enslave Us" globalresearch.ca
_____ (2022-08-31). Google Employees Protest Company's $1.2b Contract With Israeli Military. popularresistance.org Los Angeles, California – Google employees have protested their company's $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government and military called Project Nimbus, which aims to silence and profile pro-Palestine voices in the high-tech company and around the world. | "Google's Project Nimbus will be an ugly moment in Google's history and shameful and embarrassing engagement," said one employee who preferred to remain anonymous in fear of retaliation. | "I have found Google's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program to be a whitewash, it's more of a tool for censorship and control than for truly supporting employees,"
Toward Freedom Editor (2022-08-31). From Mainstream Media to Alternative Press: Q&A with Eric Agnero, New Toward Freedom Board Member. towardfreedom.org Eric Agnero joined Toward Freedom's board on May 14. He is a journalist and political analyst from the Ivory Coast, specializing in U.S.-Africa affairs. Here's what he had to tell Toward Freedom about the role of the media and what's next to cover in Africa.
_____ (2022-08-31). Washington's and Kyiv's Failed Attempt to Drive a "Fake News" Wedge between Kazakhstan and Russia. journal-neo.org 
The well-informed reader need not be reminded of the United States' "eagerness" to regain the positions it has lost in Central Asia in recent years. And of Washington's incessant attempts to separate the former CIS republics and now independent Central Asian states from Russia for this reason. It is enough to recall the speech given …
Editor (2022-08-31). We're Being Trained to Worry About 'Russian Propaganda' While Drowning in US Propaganda. scheerpost.com 
People with a TV instead of a head controlled by the hands of a puppeteer. the concept of the influence of the media and propaganda on a person's worldview. ( By Caitlin Johnstone / One of the weirdest, most insane things happening today is the way the entire western world is being trained to freak out about "Russian propaganda" — which barely exists in the west — while i…
Staff (2022-08-31). Corporate Media Has Failed to Report on the Threats to Women's Reproductive Rights. scheerpost.com 
Women's Rights (Nicole Vargas / Flickr) By Kathleen Minelli and Steve Macek / Project Censored In the weeks since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the corporate media has been saturated with analyses and reports about the implications of the ruling for women's lives and health. Legal observers have weighed in on the conservative majority's reasoning …
Editor (2022-08-31). Patrick Lawrence: When Correspondents Came Home, Part 2. scheerpost.com 
Speechless — by Mr. Fish | By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost | This is the second of a two-part series examining the collapse of foreign coverage in mainstream media. Part 1 of this series can be found A few days after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, George W. Bush's press secretary arranged a conference call with America's leading editors in Washington. Ari Fleischer's intent was to secure the cooperation of newspapers and broadcasters as the…
TeleSUR (2022-08-31). Mexican Public-Private Lithium Company to Be Located in Sonora. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) announced that the new state-controlled lithium company will be open to private investment and will be installed in the state of Sonora, bordering the United States. | RELATED: | "We are developing a plan for the generation of renewable, clean energy and also for the production of lithium batteries to boost the automotive industry in Sonora," he said.
Anonymous669 (2022-08-31). Another Turkish Military Base In Northern Syria Came Under Attack. southfront.org 
Turkish forces are seen at Mount Barsaya in northeast of Afrin, January 28, 2018 / Khalil Ashawi / Reuters | On August 31, an indirect fire attack targeted a base of the Turkish military located in the northern outskirts of Hazwan town in the northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo. | According to the London-based Syrian observatory for Human Rights, the attack was launched from an area in the northern Aleppo countryside jointly controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian military. The attack infli…
Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-30). Russia: A Strategic Challenge for NATO in the Arctic. libya360.wordpress.com NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday warned of the "strategic challenge" posed to the Atlantic Alliance by Russia's increased presence in the Arctic. Stoltenberg concluded a three-day visit to Canada at Cold Lake Air Base in northwestern Canada where North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) fighter jets tasked with patrolling the Arctic are based….
Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-30). Why Any Political 'Scientist' Who Calls U.S. a "Democracy" Is a Fake — NO Scientist. libya360.wordpress.com Eric ZuesseScientific empirical studies have uniformly proven that the U.S. Government is not a democracy (not a one-person-one-vote operation, nor anything even approximating that) but is instead an aristocracy (a one-dollar-one-vote Government). The U.S. Government represents actually not persons, but instead wealth. Voters go to the polls deceived by propaganda permeating the media, and voters…
_____ (2022-08-30). Five Rural Maine Towns Form Coalition For Affordable Broadband. popularresistance.org Maine – Spurred to action by inadequate high-speed Internet service as the pandemic besieged their communities, local officials and citizen volunteers in five rural Maine towns formed the Southwestern Waldo County Broadband Coalition (SWCBC) in an effort to bring ubiquitous and affordable broadband to its portion of Waldo County. | Two years later, the SWCBC is close to securing a major victory for local Internet choice in the face of a well-funded opposition campaign sweeping the Pine Tree State as the Big Telecom lobby and its allies try to undermine the very idea of publicly-owned, locally-controlled broadband…
The problems of 'fake news' and disinformation that seem to be running rampant in today's society didn't just spring up in the last few years. Since history has been able to be told there have been conspiracy theories, outright lies, and coverups by various groups for various purposes. Often it has to do with power, …